‘Smart crosswalk’ project kicks off in Hua Hin
The Highway Department along with a private firm have installed solar-cell lamps on a pedestrian crossing at the Hua Hin Market as part of the “smart crosswalk” project for 14 southern provinces.
Apichart Charnthanyakorn, director of Prachuap Khiri Khan Highway office, led some 20 workers from the East Asia Traffic Co Ltd to install 32 road-embedded solar-cell lamps on the Phetkasem Road pedestrian crossing at the Hua Hin market.
Apichart said the lamps would reflect the white strips of the crossing for motorists to see at night so that they could slow down. The battery would last 12 hours.
Apichart said the lamps would be connected to traffic lights at crossings and the lamps would be turned on when pedestrians see the signal to cross the road.
He said each lamp cost Bt100,000 and they were embedded at the edges of white strips, about 1.2 metres apart. Each lamp will last five years.
The Hua Hin market was chosen for the trial because the night market is a key tourism landmark, he added.
He said the installation at the Hua Hin market was on a trial basis. If it proved successful, more would be installed along Phetkasem Road in 14 southern provinces.
